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Pmd (All versions): Annoying Client Moments During Exploration

Pokémon clients can be very annoying during exploration.
One of the annoying things is that if a client stands next to a Pokémon and you want that he or she move away from the Pokémon. But instead of that, the client attacks and there goes the client or you lose a Reviver Seed...

I had that a few times today. World Abyss is really a dungeon that kills clients!!
Why? Nidoqueen's Earth Power!! That's for pmd 2 & sky...
Shimmer Desert is the same, but less difficult. And Nidoking is annoying with Dugtrios together!!

Do you have annoying moments with clients? Or do you have tips to evade those moments?
Then this is the right place to do that!

Here's my tip:

Get a lot of Reviver Seeds with you and make sure that you have enough.
How further the goal, the more you'll need.

Pikachu 1995 to the rescue!! I can help with my lv. 100 team in PMD Sky version. Also good for Darkness and Time.

This or when the client decides that he wants to be a hero and then gets himself killed or, *Runaway activated* they start running away from you, potentially into death D : that's irritating and so are the warp traps when you get seperated DX

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When you're trying to escort like a Lv.3 rattata through like a 60 floor dungeon just so it can get to it's friend and you can complete the mission. -.- The amount of times the client has died doing this. Absolute pisstake.

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Any Ghost type client that I have to rescue. They're always inside the walls, or in some other unreachable place. I mean, I do have a Moblie Scarf, but early on in the games, I avoid any and all clients that can go through walls.

I was trying to do 4 missions at a time as I always do at Mt. Bristle. My client was a Shellos. We were almost at the stairs and this Doduo was following us. Shellos used Mud Sport, Dodue is now 2 squares away. I try to move to the stairs and instead if following us, he uses Mud Sport again! Doduo usedQuick Attack, knocked him out, and I was transferred back to the Guild. AT FLOOR 6! If I don't get picked for the expedition I'm going to murder him >_<

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Just had one.
I had to escort Wailord to... Guess what? Seedot. In Buried Relic floor 97.
I accepted since I was going to hunt for Gulpin anyway.
I'm on floor 84, and my battery was getting low. I discovered a pitfall trap, and both Gulpin and Wailord Fall in it, making me lose Gulpin, and making me transport back to home because THE Wailord "fainted".

"Escort me to my love! We're supposed to meet!" if you want to go on a date with your girl, do us a favour and meet up with her in Pokémon Square, NOT THOUSANDS OF FEET BELOW THE MAGMA FILLED EARTH IN MAGMA CAVERN.

But I digress. T/D/S did help us a bit, since now the pokémon is always at level seven, but you know those missions where the reward is the client joining you? I escort someone to a certain floor, they ask me to join my team, I say yes. Off to the assembly to check my new team member. He's level 1.

Someone please tell me why the creators did this. I still haven't got a clue why the hell a level seven reverts back to level one when he joins a team.

What I find annoying is when you do one of those outlaw missions where you get joined by magnezone, the high big sheriff who you see arresting every outlaw you catch, from the very weakest to the very strongest. But when you enter the dungeon you find out the guy is weak as hell, not only do you need to protect him but you have to make sure the outlaw you need to capture doesn't hit him cause it's instant death. How does it make sense that when you steal an apple an army of overpowered keckleons come to kill you while the sheriff loses to pretty much everything?

This was especially horrible the first time, when I didn't know Magnezone would be a liability instead of an asset and I was doing a lot of outlaw missions, most of them where above my level but I just kept using my smokescreen so that they would hit only once every so often when whiffer ended. Normally no problem, my team could survive one-hit but it turned out the big guy couldn't >_>

Oh dear Arceus. Back in Explorers of Time, I wanted to have the Golden Mask so I'd have higher chances of recruiting any pokemon, but I also didn't want to deal with Zero Isle, so I decided to use Wonder Mail to get it as a reward. That felt like cheating, though (probably because that's exactly what it was), so I decided to give myself a fairly difficult mission so that my Golden Mask would feel at least somewhat legitimate. The mission I created was to escort a pokemon to meet a friend at Bottomless Sea B49F.

Knowing this would be pretty dang hard, I brought along six reviver seeds and made Palkia the leader, since he could clear out Monster Houses and attack threats to the client anywhere in the room with Spacial Rend. For the most part, things went fairly smoothly. The valiant brigade was on the 48th floor and only two of the six reviver seeds had been used. At this point, it seemed utterly impossible that things could go awry; at long last, victory was firmly within reach.

And then, by a cruel trick of fate, my happiness was abruptly shattered. Arceus was in a wicked mood that day, and so He nefariously placed a Warp Trap in our path, sending the client far, far away from the rest of the team, to the room with the stairs - and an enemy. With no way of quickly getting to the client, all I could do was watch as, with each step I took, the enemy cut down my idiotic and helpless companion, a reviver seed disappearing each turn, until the hapless client could rise no more. And thus, on the precipice of victory, my quest for the Golden Mask was rendered a failure.

After all this happened, I promptly shut down the DS, raged for a while, generated a Beach Cave mission, and got my Golden Mask easy-peasy.

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